Hello guys...

It will be great if somebody helps me in below query in which I'm stuck up since 4 days..

I'm installing postfix with mysql support, installed all required packages, now testing mail sending and receiving, Sending is OK, but while receiving mail (Even from local to local) I'm receiving below error

relay=maildrop, delay=331786, delays=331786/0.05/0/0.01, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: ERR: authdaemon: s_connect() failed: Permission denied /usr/bin/maildrop: Temporary authentication failure. )


Installed courier-imap,authlib & maildrop using steps in below given link.

howtoforge.com/installing-courier-imap-courier-authlib-maildrop-fedora-redhat-centos

permissions to some of the related files are follows.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1907 Aug 8 23:27 /etc/maildroprc
drwx------ 85 vmail vmail 4096 Aug 8 09:57 /home/vmail

ll /var/spool/authdaemon/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Aug 9 04:42 pid
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 6 07:32 pid.lock
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Aug 9 04:42 socket

It would be great, if somebody helps me.